Today marks one year since I made the first commit to the Zen Audio Player (ZAP) project on GitHub! After reading Robby Russell’s post about Oh my Zsh, I’ve realized ZAP has a lot of potential going into year 2. Over the past year the project has grown in ways I would’ve never imagined. To date we’ve had 20 contributors, and most have been in the past 4 months!
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A Brief Timeline of Development
Birth
Last year, I had a very simple idea: hide the video player on YouTube videos and just listen to the audio. I thought it would be something fairly easy to do, and it was. I slapped together a working version of a website in a couple of weeknights while procrastinating on my senior project. My “innovation” was setting the height of the YouTube player small enough so only the controls were visible.
Life was great for a few months. I was listening to progressive trance mixes at work without being embarrassed by the borderline-NSFW thumbnails/slideshows on most of these videos. In my spare time on nights and weekends I started adding features. Then all of a sudden one day, YouTube redesigned their video player.